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...Peter Benchley's new novel: "The girl lay on the surface of the sea, looking into the water through a mask, and was afraid." This time, though, the menace is misleading. The author of Jaws has produced a simple story that is longer on charm than chills. Paloma, 16, lives on an island in the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California) and mourns her drowned father. For comfort, she spends her days skindiving at the secret place he had shown her: a seamount, or underwater volcanic formation, where an astonishing variety offish gather and feed...
...villain of the piece does not lurk in the depths but rides the surface. Paloma's brother Jo discovers her spot and decides, with his two companions, to cast his fishing nets there. She cannot stop them or prevent news of the find from reaching all the other fishermen in her village. But she bumps into an improbable ally: a giant manta ray that seems as interested in preserving the seamount as she is. Lest credulity be overstrained, a dust-jacket photograph shows Author Benchley riding on the back of a manta...
...know what's fashionable. I can feel it in the air," sniffed Paloma Picasso. Who could argue? With parents like Painters Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, good taste seemed to run in her genes. Born the year her father designed his now famous dove for the Communist World Peace Congress (her name is Spanish for dove), Paloma, 31, is now recognized for her own international body. This year she was named to the International Best-Dressed list. But at the opening of a display of Ch'ing dynasty costumes at New York's Metropolitan Museum...
...that MOMA has ever held, or probably ever will. It contains pieces ranging in size from Guernica, Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, string, paper and clay; there was virtually no medium the Spaniard did not use, and all are profusely represented...
...bestowed little love on his children after they passed the age of cherubic portraiture. Born over a span of 28 years, they were: Paulo, his only legitimate child, by Dancer Olga Koklova (he died in 1975); Maya, by Marie-Thérèse Walter; and Claude and Paloma, by Franchise Gilot. One of the few paramours or wives with any pretension to intellectuality, Gilot (now married to famed U.S. Scientist Dr. Jonas Salk) was co-author of a bitter book, Life with Picasso, in which she calls him a manipulator of human beings: "He loved only one thing...